| T3:8.3 | This resistance is the reason you have been taken on such a long journey before we ever once talked of an idea as crucial as that of bitterness. This bitterness has been a source of resistance as strong as that of the ego and more deeply felt. As I have said, bitterness is to your heart what the ego has been to your mind. Thus bitterness has to do with your feelings more so than your thoughts. The ego but played upon these feelings, using them as building blocks for its thought system. As long as you carry this bitterness within you, you will remain in the house of illusion for your feelings are as real to you as have been the thoughts of your ego-mind. While anything other than the truth remains real to you, your house of illusion will remain a real structure, a structure that keeps you from the truth as surely as would iron bars keep you within its rooms. |